i got a WHR-HP-GN from newegg for 40 bux, installed the latest brainslayer build of dd-wrt on it and its good, no crashes in 60 days, perfect performance, couldnt ask for a better router for the price, oh and you can buy it new still yay

^this. I bought mine when they were first released (circa 2002?) and it has been running 24/7 since then. Signal strength was decent, but dramatically improved when I installed the high-gain antennas. The ONLY reason I upgraded was to support gigabit networking.

I have a linksys WRT350N, which is a gigabit router. I spent a good amount on it, close to $200.00 USD. I don't particularly want to suggest you spend a lot, but I do want to recommend that you at least consider a gigabit router. If you have more than one comp on the LAN with a gigabit NIC, it becomes really, really, really nice when transferring files or gaming over the lan. It will cost you more, but I think it's something to consider. Mine has been great. Hell man, If you're just going to get a standard Megabit router, I can give you one. It's G type wireless, but it's also free.

I have a linksys WRT350N, which is a gigabit router. I spent a good amount on it, close to $200.00 USD. I don't particularly want to suggest you spend a lot, but I do want to recommend that you at least consider a gigabit router. If you have more than one comp on the LAN with a gigabit NIC, it becomes really, really, really nice when transferring files or gaming over the lan. It will cost you more, but I think it's something to consider. Mine has been great. Hell man, If you're just going to get a standard Megabit router, I can give you one. It's G type wireless, but it's also free.

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no need - you can pick up a 5-port gigabit switch for $20~ish , and then a regular router on top of that for internet. that's what i do. no need spending so much on a gigabit router when your internet connection won't touch 10MB in most cases. a switch does the job for LAN more than well.

the only consideration is if you want N or not, if N is not important , go with the 54g - if it is, then you have the two "n" linksys